The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 145

I want you to take a rope and tie me by the feet to the lodge poles, so that I may hang head downward from the poles.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: want, take, tie, hang · To what, where: you, rope, me, head, poles

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 want	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rope	det
7	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tie	cc
9	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tie	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 feet	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 feet	det
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tie	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 poles	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 poles	det
16	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 poles	compound
17	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tie	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hang	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 hang	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hang	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 hang	aux
23	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hang	obj
25	downward	downward	ADV	_	23 hang	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 poles	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 poles	det
28	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hang	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	you			tree rules
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a rope			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme
3	tie	infinitive	you not said here	me		by the feet; to the lodge poles	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient to pole=Co-Patient
4	hang	may	I	head	the poles	downward property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 145

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 145